Synonyms for wages
wages

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1. wagesnoun

   An allowance is a stipulated amount furnished at regular intervals as a matter of discretion or gratuity, as of food to besieged soldiers, or of money to a child or ward. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done. Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance. Recompense is a still wider and loftier word, with less suggestion of calculation and market value; there are services for which affection and gratitude are the sole and sufficient recompense; earnings, fees, hire, pay, salary, and wages are forms of compensation and may be included in compensation, remuneration, or recompense. Pay is commercial and strictly signifies an exact pecuniary equivalent for a thing or service, except when the contrary is expressly stated, as when we speak of "high pay" or "poor pay." Wages denotes what a worker receives. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital. Hire is distinctly mercenary or menial, but as a noun has gone out of popular use, tho the verb to hire is common. Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.

   Synonyms:
   allowance, compensation, earnings, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, recompense, remuneration, requital, salary, stipend

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1. wages

   Synonyms:
   remuneration, hire, compensation, stipend, salary, allowance

   Antonyms:
   gratuity, douceur, premium, bonus, grace

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. wages, reward, payoffnoun

   a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

   "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"

   Synonyms:
   issue, return, bribe, payoff, yield, reinforcement, advantage, reward, final payment, take, proceeds, takings

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1. wagesnoun

   Synonyms:
   hire, salary, pay, compensation, remuneration, stipend, allowance, earnings

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1. wagesnoun

   Synonyms:
   compensation, pay, earnings, hire, salary

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1. List of paraphrases for "wages":

   salaries, wage, salary, pay, earnings, remuneration, treatments, payroll, salaires, gore

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1. Janette Dill:

   Long-term care is a sector that is largely paid for by Medicaid, and Medicaid has pretty low reimbursement rates, and so consequently, the wages in long-term care are pretty low. So there are lots of reasons people would want to leave long-term care.

2. Ronil Hira:

   There could not be a clearer case of the H-1B program being used to harm American workers' wages and working conditions.

3. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders:

   I don't know if it's a winning strategy or not, but this is what I do know: The middle class of this country is disappearing despite the fact that people are working longer hours and they're earning lower wages.

4. Ken Polcari:

   I don't necessarily think the wage decline is such a big deal but what it does tell you is that there is certainly no upward pressure on wages and so therefore it just signals that slack in the labor market.

5. Bernie Sanders:

   Corporate America and the billionaire class have been waging a 40-year war against the trade union movement in America that has caused devastating harm to the middle class in terms of lower wages, fewer benefits and frozen pensions, that war will come to an end when I am president. If we are serious about rebuilding the middle class in America, we have got to rebuild, strengthen and expand the trade union movement in America.